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NEA Jazz Masters Live
Celebrating the living legends who have made exceptional contributions
to the advancement of jazz, NEA Jazz Masters Live supports meaningful,
in-depth, extended engagements featuring NEA Jazz Masters that:
- honor their body of work, history, or style
- provide understanding of their significance to jazz through thematically-designed or retrospective programming
- broaden audiences' awareness of their unique contributions to this original American art form.
Organizations chosen for the first phase of NEA Jazz Masters Live are:
- American Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO;
- Detroit International Jazz Festival, Detroit, MI;
- Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle, Seattle, WA;
- Jazz Arts Group of Columbus, Columbus, OH;
- Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY;
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC;
- Litchfield Performing Arts, Litchfield, CT;
- Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh, PA;
- Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA;
- SFJAZZ, San Francisco, CA;
- Tri-C JazzFest, Cleveland, OH;
- "We Always Swing" Jazz Series, Columbia, MO.
NEA Jazz Masters Live is being administered by Arts Midwest. Please check back for an upcoming schedule of NEA Jazz Masters Live.
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